29 October 2009

A Collection of Burroughs' Book Covers

Ask yourself these questions and take the necessary steps to find the answers: 'what is sex? What is word? What is color?' -- Color is trapped in word -- Image is trapped in word -- Do you need words? -- Try some other method of communication, like color flashes -- a Morse code of color flashes -- or odor or music or tactile sensations -- Anything can represent words and letters and association blocks -- Go on try it and see what happens -- science pure science --// William S. Burroughs, The Ticket That Exploded

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I'm an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at UNC Chapel Hill. This blog was maintained mostly during my time as a PhD student in English at Duke (2009-2015) and as a master's student in Comparative Media Studies at MIT (2007-2009).